hr4 Mittelhessen

hr4 Mittelhessen is one of two entries in Germany whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is four. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.

hr4 Mittelhessen ranks 244 among 1,409 stations in Germany. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

Oldies is one of Germany's headline genres in this directory, and hr4 Mittelhessen is one of 16 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.

Across every country, hr4 Mittelhessen is 13 of the 75 stations leading with oldies, by the same open count the country list uses.

The audio comes from dispatcher.rndfnk.com, and 27 other stations in Germany are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Germany's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.